#bronzeage — Public Fediverse posts
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'The Fabric is everywhere, it is all around us. … You take the blue schist and the story ends. You wake in your trench and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red schist and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the subsoil goes.' - Morpheus (allegedly) #archaeology #potsherds #Daskalio #Keros #BronzeAge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daskalio
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3900 years of land subsidence at Lipari Island (Italy): new insights for Early Bronze Age submerged findings [html, pdf 17pp] #UnderwaterArchaeology #MaritimeArchaeology #BronzeAge https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110439
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DNA traces on medieval parchment reveal 3,700-year history of deadly sheeppox virus
Medieval manuscripts preserve genetic traces of a sheep disease that has threatened herds across Eurasia for more than 3,700 years, according to a new study. Researchers recovered ancient DNA from sheeppox virus, or SPPV, in animal skins used to make parchment...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/medieval-parchment-reveal-history-of-sheeppox-virus/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #sheeppox #bronzeage #medieval
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A woman buried in Bronze Age Poland has teeth that say wheat and bones that say millet, decades apart. New isotope work pushes Europe’s earliest millet consumption back over a century. #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/millet-reached-bronze-age-poland
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Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 km to build Britain’s tallest prehistoric stone row
Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 kilometers across Yorkshire to build Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row, a…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #BronzeAge #Megalithic #Neolithic
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/121176/ Ancient builders hauled 25-ton stones 18 km to build Britain’s tallest prehistoric stone row #Britain #BronzeAge #Megalithic #Neolithic
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Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source
Scientists from Curtin University and the University of York have pinpointed the origin of the Devil’s Arrows, the…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Apatite #BrimhamRocks #BronzeAge #Devil’sArrows #Megalithicstructure #Neolithic #PlumptonRocks #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire #Zircon
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/120979/ Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source #Apatite #BrimhamRocks #Britain #BronzeAge #Devil’sArrows #Europe #MegalithicStructure #Neolithic #PlumptonRocks #UK #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire #Zircon
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Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source https://www.byteseu.com/2351484/ #Apatite #BrimhamRocks #Britain #BronzeAge #Devil’sArrows #Europe #GreatBritain #MegalithicStructure #Neolithic #PlumptonRocks #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire #zircon
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1195596/ Britain’s Tallest Standing Stones Traced to Their Geological Source #Apatite #BrimhamRocks #Britain #BronzeAge #Devil’sArrows #England #Europe #GreatBritain #MegalithicStructure #Neolithic #NorthernIreland #PlumptonRocks #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Yorkshire #Zircon
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Temple of the Obelisks, Byblos, Lebanon [OC]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_the_Obelisks
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Bronze Age stone footprints may have sealed friendships, marriages, and alliances in ancient Scandinavia
Thousands of footprints carved into rock surfaces along the coasts of southern Scandinavia have puzzled archaeologists for decades. These ancient engravings, known as podomorphs, were often treated as symbolic images or ritual representations. A new study suggests a very different interpretation...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/bronze-age-stone-footprints-carved-into-scandinavian-rocks/
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Cutaway of a roundhouse, Bronze Age Britain (Peter Dunn)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2041276/cutaway-of-a-roundhouse-bronze-age-britain-peter-dunn
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Arheologia Nº 1 - 2026
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#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #BronzeAge #IronAge #greeks #scythians #huns #pottery #Rome #materialculture #funerary #steppe #Ucraine #lithics #jounals #openaccess
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So, in addition to demonizing #Matriarchal societies, #Homer took a stab at the survivors of the #BronzeAgeCollapse on #Crete by turning them into the #Cyclops! Not a surprise! I noticed that #Odysseus eyed the "Cyclops Island" as prime #RealEstate (like a typical #Colonist!). Of course the so-called "civilized" #AncientGreeks had to demonize peoples who had lived under female rulers or NO RULERS!
Were the Odyssey’s #Cyclopes Actually #Minoans?
By Caleb Howells, January 6, 2026
Excerpt: "Drawing on his experience sailing a replica of an Ancient Greek galley, Severin estimated that Odysseus would have reached the coast of Libya, specifically near the site that later became the Greek colony of Cyrene. This was the Land of the Lotus Eaters. From there, Odysseus resumed his journey back to Ithaca, logically sailing north toward Southern Greece. Along this route, he would likely have arrived at the southwestern corner of #Crete, where the peninsula of #Paleochora was once separated from the main island, forming a small offshore island.
"This scenario closely matches the Odyssey’s description of Odysseus arriving at a small island situated just beside the island where the Cyclopes lived.
How the Cyclopes match the Minoans of Crete
"Severin’s argument that Crete was the island of the Cyclopes is highly compelling. But how do the Minoans fit into this theory? Regarding the Minoan city of Kommos in southern Crete, Severin noted its abandonment in the Late Bronze Age and asked:
" 'What had happened to the survivors of Kommos and the other Minoan settlements along this coast? Could they have fallen back to the barest subsistence level, living in caves and practicing the sort of simple pastoral farming that Ulysses found among the Cyclopes?'
"In essence, Severin suggested that the Cyclopes of the Odyssey may have been Minoans who, after the collapse of their magnificent #BronzeAge civilization, returned to a #simpler, more primitive way of life. While Severin did not explore this idea in depth, a closer examination reveals there is substantial evidence for this."
Read more:
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/06/odyssey-cyclopes-minoans/#AncientHistory #Crete #Histodon #BronzeAgeCollapse #Colonialism
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The beautifully tapering Carfury menhir in West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering.
It stands in an area of small fields, just off an overgrown ancient lane below Ding Dong mine and Nine Maidens of Boskednan stone circle.
Visited June 2011 on a day of sunshine and showers. Portrait, may need a click.
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Porthmeor standing stone in West Penwith for today's ##StandingStoneSunday offering. It stands in a field on the north side of the spectacular coast road between Morvah and Zennor. Just to the south is a late Iron Age courtyard house settlement, and the field patterns here are mostly Bronze and Iron Age, still in use today.
This visit June 2011. Portrait, may need a click.
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Some of the lovely granite stones of Tregeseal stone circle, West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday
There were originally two circles here, but the other has been all but destroyed.
This visit June 2011.
#StoneCircle #WestPenwith #Cornwall #BronzeAge #LichenSubscribe
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A sunny, windy day on the West Penwith moors. 10 miles from St Just to Madron, we vary the site selection each time we do this walk, other than always taking in my two favourite stone circles. Today we also had two Neolithic chambered tombs, another stone circle with a hole in it, some more stones with holes in them, a handful of Bronze Age cairns and a fantastic Iron Age hillfort. I love it here, a megalithic paradise.
#Cornwall #WestPenwith #Neolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #HotHillfortSummer
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An is it or isn't it standing stone for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Built into a Cornish hedge* in the lane leading to Ding Dong mine and Nine Maidens stone circle, this lovely tapering monolith is not recorded as prehistoric, but given the plethora of Bronze Age sites close by, it looks a good bet to me.
This visit after sunset, November 2010.
*formed of two parallel dry stone walls with an earth infill between them, out of which vegetation grows.
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Approaching sunset, Nine Maidens of Boskednan for #StandingStoneSunday
This circle, high on a ridge with panoramic views in all directions, is my favourite of all.
This visit November 2010, towards the end of a lovely autumn walk from St Just to Madron. Portrait, needs a click.
#WestPenwith #StoneCircle #Cornwall #TheModernAntiquarian #BronzeAge
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One of the holed stones on Kenidjack Common, West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering.
There are five holed stones here (with possible remains of a sixth), upright slabs of hard Cornish granite with a hole bored through by hand tools in the Bronze Age. They stand on the Moor near Tregeseal stone circle.
This visit November 2010.
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Long shadows for today's #StandingStoneSunday the fabulous Boswens menhir on the West Penwith moors.
The stone is very asymmetrical and looks different from every angle. If you walk along the Tinner's Way below it, the stone appears as a tall figure on the skyline, which turns to watch you as you pass.
It's intervisible with the marvellous Chûn Quoit Neolithic tomb.
This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.
#BronzeAge #StandingStone #WestPenwith #Cornwall #TheModernAntiquarian
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One of my very favourite sites for today's #StandingStoneSunday - Tregeseal stone circle, on the West Penwith moors.
There were originally two circles here, but only a couple of stones remain of the second.
Inevitably the stones are Maidens turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath.
This visit on a beautiful autumn day, November 2010.
#StoneCircle #BronzeAge #WestPenwith #Cornwall #TheModernAntiquarian
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Stones around Boscawen-Ûn, near St Buryan, West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Clockwise from top left: The Blind Fiddler, Boscawen Hedge, the central stone of Boscawen-Ûn stone circle, Boscawen menhir (all portrait, needs a click).
The central pillar of the fabulous stone circle has a faint carving of a pair of either axe-heads or feet.
This visit June 2010.
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A pair of lovely stones for today's #StandingStoneSunday. These are The Sisters, near Drift in West Penwith.
This area of fertile farmland boasts many standing stones, and two stone circles.
Inevitably in folklore they were turned to stone for not attending church.
This visit June 2010.
#BronzeAge #WestPenwith #Conwall #StandingStones #Folklore #Lichen
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A summer's day in West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Men Scryfa, a probable Bronze Age standing stone later reused in the post-Roman period with the addition of an inscription commemorating Rialobran ('Royal Raven').
This visit June 2010 on a walk from St Just across the moors.
Unfortunately the stone was vandalised in late May this year, someone poured a flammable liquid over the top and set fire to it:
https://cornishancientsites.com/2023/06/12/attack-on-men-scryfa/